Central heating is being serviced today, so I am home waiting for the chirpy BG gas fitters who wll tell me my back boiler is grossly inefficient (I know, I pay the bills) and they are not sure they can get it working up to "modern day standards"and that my ventilation is not up to "modern day standards" and advise me to knock bloody bigs holes in the wall and fit vents to bring it up to "modern day standards". I'll make the approriate noises and nod in the right places, but as long as the central heating works I am not that bothered.Yes I would like greatly reduced gas bills but I don't have a spare £4,000 lying around to pay BG to fit a nice new condensing boiler.
Anyway being off work is nice even if I am in on my own. Gives me a chance to listen to some music, currently listening to The Wedding Present and Perfect Blue. The Wedding Present (TWP) are my BIG music passion and have been for 20 years. I think David Gedge is a massively underated composer.He deserves quite a few acoladesfor his body of work. My wife thinks I am obsessed by him and his bands and I suppose if I thought about it, I doubt there have been many days in the last 20+ years when I haven't played at least one of Gedge's songs. I lost track a bit when he formed Cinerama but came back to the fold in 2003 when I went to see Cinerama at the Uni in Newcastle and rediscovered my passion for all things Gedge. By this time they were playing TWP songs again but it was the Cinerama songs that they played that once again stopped me dead in my tracks and I went out and bought all the Cinerama stuff I'd missed and loved it. Yes even Va Va Voom. Anyway if you like Indie/punk guitar based songs about love, loss and the pain of personal relationships and loved the late John Peel's show seek them out. Leave a comment and I will give you some suggestions about how to sample their work. Anyway gotta go as BG havejust turned up. I hope it goes OK[very worried]
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